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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Keeping Mimi On Her Toes

Blogging time has become chasing time, reading time, feeding time, play time and so on. Busy days here at the farm. Lots of encouragement mixed with a healthy dose of "No, m'am."

Thank goodness I put several things in the freezer from my cooking a few weeks ago. The salsa chicken I made in the Crockpot made excellent chicken & cheese quesadillas this week. Turkey spaghetti sauce from the freezer was a quick supper last night.

Don't forget to take advantage of your freezer this summer. I've done the big batch cooking but decided that for us it works better just to make a double batch, or even divide a normal recipe--eat half and freeze half. A month's worth of one recipe was too much for us.

About Me

I'm a wife, a mom, a home economist (I worked for our university co-operative extension service for 10 years,) a musician (I taught guitar for 10 years,) a knitter, and now--a grandmother! All of the other jobs just helped get me ready for this most important one.

First, let me tell you—go to the Skinny Taste blog and see her post of this recipe . I don't know if she "invented" the rec...

Quotes

A six-year-old was asked where his grandma lived. "Oh," he said, "she lives at the airport, and when we want her, we just go get her. Then, when we're done having her visit, we take her back to the airport." ~How Children Perceive Their Grandparents

Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends - and hardly ever our own grown children. ~Ruth Goode

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~ Alex Haley

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. ~Phyllis Theroux

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother. ~Prince William

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. ~G. Norman Collie

If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers. ~Linda Henley

It's amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one. ~Author Unknown

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. ~Rita Rudner